.The conflict of this story is the feminist and the male first doctrine.And it belong to external conflict.
2.Four stages of this story :
1).Exposition :P(1-3) Character event .A friend came and told Mrs.Mallard her husband had been dead in the railroad disaster.
2).Development :P(4-7) The situation of the wife after she came back to her own room .Her husband dead and she have no idea about her future .
3).Climax :P(8-17)She was waiting for something coming to her and realized it was freedom .She find something more important than her insipid life——Free ,Body and soul free .
4).Resolution :P(18-20) the wife died suddenly when she saw her husband again .not because the losing of the new freedom .
3.Character :it’s use of the protagonist .
The characteristics of Mrs.Mallard :Free,free,free!” “Free!Body and soul free!” Her seemingly inappropriate pleasure formed a striking yet discordant contrast with the death of her husband.All these show that she was no other than a beast in the cage and she had repressed herself for so long.But now,she could at last live a kind of life she wanted.
4.Setting :In the nineteenth century,tried to blunt description of Chopin women and men,children,relationships and sexuality in their own feelings and emotions.This is considered offensive to readers of high society at that time.In 1885 his mother died,she stopped and began to accept the Catholic practice of Darwinian view of human evolution.In the natural rather than the church to seek God and love of Chopin a lot of descriptive themes.American writers her sad that caused by the environment,art and the limitations prevented a full account of instinct.Social behaviors that challenge the traditional works,such as "Story of An Hour" magazine editors often rejected.However,after half a century,feminist critics have strongly advocated.
5.Point of view :Omniscient point of view .
6.Theme :As a woman in the society at that time Louise burdened all the responsibilities for her husband and her family .but quite different from other women ,she looked forward to the freedom eagerly ,however ,in the end she couldn’t realize her freedom because of power lessness.
